Home truths

Who can afford to live in a place like this? ... the answer is very few

Astronomical housing prices are the result of decades of botched policy.

So solving it requires a radical funding programme that delivers hundreds of thousands of new homes, not the half-cocked schemes we’ve seen so far — especially if councils are to build the much-needed affordable housing which developers won’t.

And Ministers must tear up planning restrictions, no matter who it annoys.

When owning a home feels like a fantasy, it’s hardly a surprise so many young people are willing to listen to Labour’s fairytale economics.

The Tories have to make home ownership dreams a reality, or they’ll be punished at the ballot box for a generation.

Top brass

ENGLAND’S 5-1 battering of Germany in 2001 has lived long in the memory.

You might think that it was Michael Owen’s finishing or Paul Scholes’ movement that won the game.